G. K. Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense

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	1.	An Introduction to G.K. Chesterton An overview of Chesterton, the prolific Catholic writer who "said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else."
	2.	Orthodoxy "Orthodoxy" is perhaps Chesterton's greatest work, yet he stumbled across orthodox belief almost by accident. He wrote, "I did try to found a heresy of my own…When I fancied that I stood alone I was really in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all Christendom."
	3.	Heretics Chesterton's book "Heretics" takes on modernism, and the skeptic's refusal to use his brain to come to conclusions. He says, "Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded."
	4.	What's Wrong With the World Chesterton addressed the main problems of his day, which are the main problems of our day. His solution is to return to the Christian ideal. "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found diffucult and left untried."
	5.	The Catholic Church and Conversion "It's one thing to conclude that Catholicism is good and another to conclude that it is right. It is one thing to conclude that it is right, and another to conclude that it is always right."
	6.	The Thing: Why I am a Catholic Chesterton contrasts "the Thing" (the Catholic Church) to all other things-worldly philosophies, business, nationalism, Protestantism, agnosticism, etc. In discussing freedom of the so-called Free Thinkers, he writes, "We Catholics are the freer of the two. There is scarcely any evidence, natural or supernatural, that cannot be fitted into our system somewhere. Whereas the materialist cannot fit the most minute miracle into his system anywhere."
	7.	The Well and the Shallows The Catholic Church is the well-everything else is the shallows.
	8.	St. Francis of Assisi Chesterton tells about the man who "cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving."
	9.	St. Thomas Aquinas "To this question, 'Is there anything?' St. Thomas begins by answering 'Yes'; if he began by answering 'No', it would not be the beginning, but the end."
	10.	The Everlasting Man Chesterton writes about Christ and the things people say about him. "The truth is that when the critics have spoken about the local limitations of the Galilean, it has always been a case of the local limitations of the critics."
	11.	The Outline of Sanity Chesterton's book ,"The Outline of Sanity", exposes the problems with modern economic systems. "The point about capitalism is that …it tries to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. The point about communism is that it tries to reform the pickpocket by forbidding pockets."
	12.	The Superstition of Divorce "The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason."
	13.	Eugenics and other Evils Chesterton explores the evils of racism, euthanasia, and abortion under the euphemism of "Eugenics". Though written in 1922 during the rise of Nazism and Planned Parenthood, Chesterton's words are as timely as ever.
	14.	Fr. Brown This episode gives an overview of Chesterton's popular "Fr. Brown" detective stories, including vignettes featuring Fr. James R. Kolp as Fr. Brown.
	15.	Chesterton for Today Dale Ahlquist explains the relevance of Chesterton's writings to today's world. As Chesterton said, "A society is in decay when common sense has become uncommon."